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Searching for Internships + Volunteer Opportunities

INTERNSHIP Professional Internships in Vancouver and Toronto Canada Term: Throughout the year Length of Position: 12-24 weeks Experience Required: no Participants Travel to Canada Independently Typically Participants Work Independently Typically The Application Process Time Is 6 weeks The InterNeX internship exchange is a program managed by WAYNE communications that arranges tailored internship placements for international… Read more »

Voice Events Listings

To list events in your area, e-mail voice@ausu.org with “events” in the subject line. ONE VISION – MANY VOICES: A CROSS-CULTURAL / ANTI-RACISM EDUCATION CONFERENCE University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Nov. 17-19, 2005 http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/edpolicystudies/ INTRODUCING: ECOTREK – A RACE FOR A GREENER FUTURE! September 10-11, 2005 – www.albertaecotrek.com Alberta Ecotrek will be hosted at the… Read more »

From Where I Sit – Terry

Where were you in 1980? Perhaps, like me, you were a young wife and mother. Or maybe like my daughter, you weren’t even born yet. Maybe you were a 21-year-old university student. Maybe you were battling cancer. What were you doing in 1980 or last year for that matter? I can say unequivocally that nothing… Read more »

Women You Should Know – Gertrude B. Elion

Gertrude B. Elion (1918-1999) was born in New York City on January 23, 1919. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988 along with co-recipient George Hitchings and Sir James Black. Gertrude patented the leukemia-fighting drug 6-mercaptopurine in 1954. Her research led to the development of Imuran, a drug that aids the body… Read more »

Dear Barb – Keeping kids safe on the ‘net

Dear Barb: I am a single mother of a 13-year-old daughter who insisted that she needed a computer with Internet access for school. A friend of mind just happened to have an older computer that she was selling. I bought my daughter the computer and set it up in her room. Now I never see… Read more »

Canadian Fedwatch! News Across the Nation

COLLEGES GETTING BOOSTS FOR BUILDINGS Last week in Alberta, the Advanced Education Minister, David Hancock, announced (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200509/18718296B07A9-8204-47BD-B93AA830D972E6A2.html) that the provincial government would be investing 29 million dollars into Red Deer College to expand its facilities for trades training. At about the same time, another 8 million dollars were announced (http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200509/1872230A2F113-9938-4A1A-84716D6D89D86B7F.html) to go to Lakeland College… Read more »

Lost & Found – Certain?

There is a lone figure sitting on a bench. From this distance it is impossible to tell whether the figure is a man or woman. He or she is dressed in tattered black rags or perhaps robes of crimson silk. The details are indistinct. The sun is beating down out of a clear blue afternoon… Read more »

AUSU This Month

“A Learning Alberta” Recently, the Alberta Government announced a comprehensive review of the Alberta post-secondary education system. Many discussion documents were placed online, and all stakeholders were invited to respond and make suggestions on our how post-secondary system can be improved. The students of the four universities of Alberta have responded through a document drafted… Read more »